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lolgop.bsky.social
Of all the things Trump will never use, this is right above a sliderule.
kyivindependent.com The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 3d
Could Trump’s 100% tariffs crush Russia’s war machine?

A new U.S. law gives the president the power to impose tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian energy, while also strengthening sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet.
What Trump’s tariffs could mean for Russia and China
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
youtu.be
September 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
hackadayofficial.bsky.social
Sliderule Simulator Teaches You How To Do Calculations The Old Fashioned Way
Sliderule Simulator Teaches You How To Do Calculations The Old Fashioned Way
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:36 PM
mrxexon.bsky.social
And, she did it with an analog sliderule...
February 20, 2026 at 3:26 PM
defiijfdevlieg.bsky.social
Can use a sliderule
June 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
prchovanec.bsky.social
There's a fair argument here that, on a functional level, it doesn't matter if people can't use an abacus or a sliderule anymore, because these tools have been superseded. The more vital question is whether we're losing touch with the underlying understanding that enables these tools.
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 5:12 PM
alice.averlong.com
now if you'll excuse me I need to calculate my Enceladus slingshot maneuver on my sliderule, I need to get to Ganymede before the FuncoLand closes, I want to pick up King's Quest XXVII
May 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
pam-dirac.bsky.social
A sliderule
September 22, 2026 at 10:22 PM
dhf-on-bsky.bsky.social
Let's not forget "Slipstick" Libby, fastest man on the sliderule
February 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
andrewr.bsky.social
"Verify your age"

I learned to use a sliderule in school.
riversidewings.bsky.social Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · Jul 12
“Verify your age”

I remember when the mortar craters and bullet holes from the tail end of the Lebanese Civil War were fresh.
mrspjhaverstock.bsky.social Mrs PJ Haverstock @mrspjhaverstock.bsky.social · Jul 12
“Verify your age”

I can remember before MTV existed.
July 12, 2026 at 11:52 PM
grahamsmyth.bsky.social
Struijk splits the defence with a really lovely sliderule pass, James is onto it and races into the area and puts it across goal for Solomon to tap into the empty net.

1-1
November 24, 2024 at 3:20 PM
jalexlind.bsky.social
No one even knows what a sliderule is anymore, man! 😉
September 23, 2026 at 1:16 AM
grahamsmyth.bsky.social
Champagne football. Bamford to Solomon to Aaronson, through ball for Firpo, perfect sliderule cross to the back post where Ramazani arrives and guides it home. Pick of the bunch tonight.

3-0

#lufc
April 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
honestdrjohn.bsky.social
#SongsAndFilmsAboutMath

Sliderule House
March 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
pauletteparis1.bsky.social
I can use a sliderule! Yes, I am old. 😉
June 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
chbarts.bsky.social
One of my favorites was always

Interesting Scientific Concept With Social Implications With Characters Climbing Around On It, by Owns Sliderule

alongside

Midcentury Norms Survive A Few Thousand Years, by Blinkered Thinker
September 14, 2024 at 10:13 AM
dona-dvet.bsky.social
Age yourself with your first computer
circular sliderule
May 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
stormwyrm.org
Some antique computing devices. #sliderule #abacus
A slide rule and an abacus
September 19, 2026 at 9:32 AM
naocasanova.bsky.social
Este es un formidable simulador de REGLAS DE CÁLCULO (bueno, una sola, la Versalog Hemmi/Post 1460) que además os enseña 👣a realizar con ella un sinnúmero de operaciones.
Un sinnúmero de operaciones con números.

Obra de Richard Carpenter y Robert Wolf.
thingsabove.github.io/Sliderule-Si...
February 19, 2026 at 8:50 PM
lufty-luft.bsky.social
But sliderule watches are still cool
February 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM
miniver.bsky.social
Hey nerds. Want to play Star Fleet Battles but in 3D space? Want to be able use any of several kinds of fake physics, or even real physics? Want to do this without needing a computer, or even a sliderule?
adastragames.com AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · Apr 28
Got an email from someone enquiring about products that boils down to: What PDFs should I buy for Attack Vector: Tactical and/or Squadron Strike to Get Everything?

We're midway through updating the website to SquareSpace's latest,, and there's some organization issues, so it's understandable.
May 19, 2026 at 2:08 PM
princetonyimby.bsky.social
I'm starting to realize that asking young people to use MS Office is basically like asking them to use a typewriter or a sliderule. They are so soaked in Google Docs that it is very very hard for them!
December 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
burg.bsky.social
incel at a crowded trivia night with a sliderule frantically doing blowjob math and getting angrier and angrier
July 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
montyherr.bsky.social
I've got a 6-in sliderule sitting on my side table right now
February 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
paulhamer1.bsky.social
Heinlein had a character whose nickname was “Slipstick” suggesting that they were good with a sliderule. I haven’t seen anyone use a sliderule in the last 50+ years.
April 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
kenburnside.bsky.social
In order:

Germ Theory of Disease/proper sterilization for midwives.
Nitrogen-fixing fertilizer from bird poop.
Standing loom to slash the labor cost of fabric.
Printing press with movable type.
Sliderule/logarythmic math
July 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM